Robert Heller (10 June 1932 – 28 August 2012) was a British management journalist, management consultant, author of a series of management books, and the founding editor of ''Management Today''.

Biography

Born in London, Heller attended

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in the Sussex countryside, served in the

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, and then attended

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, where he was awarded a double first in history.David Brewerton (2012)
Robert Heller obituary: Business journalist and author of a stream of books on management in which he explained the 'tricks of the trade'
" in: ''The Guardian'', Tuesday 18 September 2012 In 1955 Heller started to work for the ''

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'', where in 1958 he was made US correspondent. In 1963 he moved to become business editor of ''

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''. In 1966 Heller was founding editor of ''

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'', a monthly business magazine published by

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, where he worked for two decades. Here he started a second career as a writer of business books. During the early 1970s, he started a relationship with gallerist Angela Flowers, who he eventually married in 2003. They had a daughter, Rachel Heller, born on 15 September 1973, who was born with Down's syndrome, and became an artist represented by Flowers Gallery.

Publications

Heller wrote about 80 management books. A selection: * 1972. ''The Naked Manager'' * 1998. ''Essential Manager's Manual'' * 1999. ''Achieving Excellence'' * 2002. ''Manager's Handbook''

References

External links

Robert Heller obituary
at ''theguardian.com''
Articles of Robert Heller
at management-issues.com

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